Headlines
  • The military claims that projectiles are being intercepted as the Houthis in Yemen launch a missile barrage at Saudi Arabian cities. At least four people are injured in Riyadh, the country's capital, as shrapnel falls on Dhahran.
  • According to the Saudi Ministry of Energy, an attack on the Saudi Aramco building in Dhahran resulted in a minor fire, but there were no fatalities or injuries reported.
  • On Tuesday, a Las Vegas court sentenced Duane "Keffe D" Davis to 40 years to life in prison for his involvement in the more than 30-year-old murder of rap icon Tupac Shakur.
  • The Vatican said on Tuesday that Pope Leo XIV had surgery to remove the lower lobe of his right lung after receiving a lung cancer diagnosis.
  • A Pennsylvania woman is accused of fatally stabbing her husband and 3-year-old son at a family resort in the Poconos before attempting suicide.
  • In support of the protesting high school students, tens of thousands of people gathered throughout France on Tuesday.

Year: 2021

March 6, 2021

Women Defying the Odds

Two documentaries shine a light on women defying the odds in the face of brutality and corruption

For Georgian Woman, A Tattoo Is...

Nano Mikautadze used to cover her head in public after an autoimmune disorder caused her hair to fall out. But in her 20s, she decided to stop wearing head scarves and decorated her scalp with a floral tattoo

Authorities in Northeast Syria Release 65...

Al-Hol camp authorities on Thursday released 65 Islamic State families of Deir el-Zour under an agreement with Syria’s tribes

For Rohingya Refugees, Myanmar Military’s Crackdown...

Seeing the violence against civilians in Myanmar in the wake of that country’s coup, Rohingya refugees sheltering in southeastern Bangladesh say their own experience has been validated now that the general Burmese population is experiencing the brutality of its military

March 5, 2021

Police Were Beaten by Three Women...

Three suspects, who did not comply with the rules of compulsory collection and the use of a protective mask, attacked a Public Security Police (PSP), on March 2, at 5:50 pm, in the parish of Belém, in Lisbon, in Portugal. The women were arrested and taken to court for the crime of resistance and coercion

Inside Tehran’s Sex Trade, A Business...

In Iran’s conservative Islamic society, prostitution is illegal, immoral, and rarely discussed. But in an investigative documentary by RFE/RL’s Radio Farda, sex workers in Tehran describe a routine business where clients are easily found and family members turn a blind eye

Despite Setbacks, Europe’s Far Right Finds...

Europe’s far right has suffered some setbacks recently: Germany’s top opposition party is under surveillance for extremism and France shut down a right-wing youth group

Uyghur Textile Entrepreneur Dies Days After...

A Uyghur textile trader and entrepreneur has died days after being freed from an internment camp in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), where he lost more than 100 pounds of weight over his three years in detention, according to sources

UN Security Council Holds Videoconference in...

Barbara Woodward, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations, addresses the videoconference with Security Council members in connection with the Middle East (Syria)

Russia Ends Ban on Hundreds of...

It’s a new era for Russian women, at least if they’re aspiring truckers, boat drivers, or pilots. Russia’s government has opened up several hundred professions that previously barred women under late-Soviet-era labor restrictions

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